I have seen a number of people reporting problems with the latest version
of NetBSD/vax on the KA650.  I'm still lagging a bit behind the curve and
don't have anything newer than 1.3.2 running on my systems.  You might try
falling back onto 1.3.2 until the current versions get fixed up a bit.

-brian.

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Holger Duewiger wrote:

> after some hard work on setting up my linuxbox as a bootserver for my
> 'new' Vax I was happy to see a kernel comming up (thanks dejanews).
> But after all, the kernel stop's booting with a 'kernelpanic'.
> Now I'm having no clue where the problem is, and I would appreciate any
> hint. I hope I will be able to reanimate this box.
> The Vax ist labeled 'Vaxstation 3200'. It cames with:
> 	*	KA650-B (V1.2/0123)
> 	* 2 x Dec M7621
> 	* Dec M7516 (Delqua)
> 	* Dec M7555 (Q-Bus controler ?)
> 	* Maxtor RD 54 - A (also labeled XT 2190)
> 
> Also, it contained some graphic stuff, which I pulled out. (Anybody out there,
> interested in it?). 
> 
> The kernel tell's me the following stuff:
> ------------------- snip -------------------------
> >> NetBSD/vax boot [981025 15:55] <<
> : /netbsd
> Using IP address: 192.168.0.2
> myip: vax (192.168.0.2), gateip: 192.168.0.1, mask: 255.255.255.0
> root addr=192.168.0.1 path=/export/vaxclient/root
> 796336+41788+159624 start 0x8cc
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998
> The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
> The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> 
> NetBSD 1.3I (GENERIC) #2: Sat Dec 19 21:23:38 CET 1998
> ragge@subzero:/multi/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC
> 
> MicroVAX 3500/3600
> realmem = 16736256
> avail mem = 13217792
> Using 204 buffers containing 835584 bytes of memory.
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: KA650, CVAX microcode rev 2 Firmware rev 18
> uba0 at mainbus0: Q22
> uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 774 ipl 17
> mscpbus0 at uda0: version 2 model 3
> mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
> ra0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: RD54
> qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 770 ipl 17
> qe0: delqa, hardware address 08:00:2b:0a:ee:8e
> boot device: qe0
> nfs_boot: trying RARP (and RPC/bootparam)
> machine check 10
> vap 80 istate1 6c istate2 dbe0fc00 pc ffc07403 psl 800b3953
> dmaser=0x88<QBNXM,LOSTERR> qbear=0xc dmaear=0x0
> parity error:  flushing cache
> memory err!
> panic: mchk
> syncing disks... Trap: type 2, code 0, pc 8000066a, psl 4080000
> panic: trap
> 			 
> ?06 HLT INST
> PC = 800B5BCD
> Loading system software.
> ----------------- snap -------------------------------------------
> 
> Now the game start's over and over.
> Thanks for any help,
> Holger
> 
> 
> --no signatur
> 

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